{"id":348543,"date":"2026-07-22T13:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348543\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T13:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:21:08","slug":"arrest-made-in-deadly-shooting-at-apartment-complex-on-florida-boulevard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348543\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest made in deadly shooting at apartment complex on Florida Boulevard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) &#8211; The Baton Rouge Police Department arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with a shooting at an apartment complex that left one person dead on Tuesday afternoon, July 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said Jordan Edwards was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on Tuesday, July 21, for second-degree murder and obstruction of justice. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Jordan Edwards\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/B4OWYHOVN5GFZG3DUXIA6NWZGU.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"1304\" \/>Jordan Edwards(L&#8217;Jean McKneely | Baton Rouge Police Department)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to officials, the shooting happened on Florida Boulevard near Marilyn Drive. A call about the gunfire came in around 3:45 p.m. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"shooting off Florida Blvd\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784726468_751_C4I6HDT26JHLJOFZHO4VJHNE4M.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"734\" \/>shooting off Florida Blvd(WAFB)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officers arrived at the scene to find a man dead with gunshot wounds, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner\u2019s Office identified the victim as Qwaviez Hamilton, 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say this is an ongoing investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is a developing story. Check back for more information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wafb.com\/2026\/07\/22\/arrest-made-deadly-shooting-apartment-complex-florida-boulevard\/mailto:typo@wafb.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wafb.com\/2026\/07\/22\/arrest-made-deadly-shooting-apartment-complex-florida-boulevard\/mailto:typo@wafb.com\">Click here<\/a> to report a typo. Please include the headline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wafb.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wafb.com\/newsletter\/\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our WAFB 9 News daily digest and breaking news alerts delivered straight to your email inbox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Watch the latest WAFB news and weather now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) &#8211; The Baton Rouge Police Department arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34853,137760,137761,28,137762,30,29,215],"class_list":["post-348543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-baton-rouge","tag-baton-rouge-police","tag-brpd","tag-florida","tag-florida-boulevard","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}